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    Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous
    Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous
    Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous
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    Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous

    By Mike Haszto

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    The heart is one of the strongest muscles in the human body. Not only physically does it keep all of us alive, but mentally and spiritually it works overtime to keep all of us somewhat balanced, happy and in the game of life.
    As we all know, the latter two mentioned are not entirely comfortable with the challenges that life presents to us.
    Here is a collection of poems from an emotional and passionate leader among poets that will stir up memories, conjure up emotions both of positiveness and emptiness, and put you in each scene that will give you the opportunity to develop new feelings and perspectives...
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    Release dateMay 16, 2013
    ISBN9781481753692
    Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous
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    Mike Haszto

    Mike Haszto will be turning sixty-two in this year of 2021. He still resides in North Ridgeville, Ohio, although this native of Islip, Long Island, New York still dreams of a house on the beach somewhere between the Outer Banks and Key West. A tent may have to do. Mike’s adventures still take him on journeys for childhood cancer through the Great Cycle Challenge. This will be Mike’s fourth year riding for the kids who should be living life and not fighting for it. You can donate at: www.greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders?MikeHaszto Each passage of time has taken him into various directions and hobbies…whether the radio industry, footgolf, golf, hockey, etc, but some things remain the same…his love of coaching hockey (31+ years), his love of writing (14 novels and 6 poetry books), his love of being a Parrothead (45+ years) and the escapism of the lifestyle and music of Jimmy Buffett, his intense obsessions with the New York Mets and Islanders, and his love of Joyce and family.

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      Issues, Tissues and Miss Yous - Mike Haszto

      Issues, Tissues and

      Miss Yous

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      by Mike Haszto

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      © 2013 by Mike Haszto. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 5/14/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-5368-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-5367-8 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-5369-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013908826

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      Contents

      The Hurt

      Nothing There

      Dirty Laundry

      Book of Claustrophobia

      Explore

      Stress

      Last Straw

      No Disguise

      Reality

      Stroke

      Missed Opportunities

      Listen

      Where Is The Love?

      Life of Illusion

      This Just Gets Nowhere

      Torture

      I Confess

      A Freaking Fool

      Just Can’t Take It

      Lost In A Cracker Barrel

      No Stranger

      Going Down Again

      Priorities

      Here

      Wrong Pillow

      Understand

      Lived It

      Foreword

      All work and no play is the beginning of a famous line out of the Stephen King movie The Shining. Countless people everywhere have either started conversations with those words and or they have answered questions with those popular words. People have even finished the quote either in its true written sense and or in their own creative way. The usual reaction is an agreeable smirk, chuckle or nod in return.

      I believe those words wholeheartedly. All work and no play make ‘me’ a dull boy (in this case). We all get caught up in the stresses and demands of our commitments, whether career, marriage, family or whatever. It’s the human condition. It’s the very core of success in our society today, unless you were born with a golden spoon in your mouth or possess last week’s winning lottery ticket. Since I have never seen a golden spoon, let alone was born with one in my mouth and I do not play the lottery because I can waste what little money I have on something that will bring me a more consistent source of enjoyment, I subscribe to the everyday stresses and demands.

      And I feel them. And I live them…in vivid detail and color.

      As my son Mike would say and I quote him frequently, Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you.

      Well, I know I am in the majority of society whose current challenges have disrupted plans, careers, lives and such. I am also in the majority of society that would say The bear has gotten way too much of me and I no longer have an ass left for it to chew.

      Thank God I don’t write with my ass.

      Although I admit, I have been accused a number of times, again with the majority of society, of thinking with my ass. I am sure that the people closest to me will back up that statement.

      The good news is that our infamous bear has chewed my ass away so I cannot be accused of doing that anymore.

      The bad news is that now I don’t think at all…

      Kidding aside, this collection of poetry really hits home with the issues that have taken control in today’s world. The paradigm has shifted from what was once normal…each past decade had its foundations of normalcy…and now we accept the fact that the paradigm for normal has shifted to include high doses of stress and low doses of sleep (and income). Much of the poetry includes a stress of some kind, making it a little easier to relate in such a hard, cold world.

      The collection also showcases several writings that have brought people to tears…hence the tissues reference in the title. We all know that our lives are nowhere near Disneyesque or anywhere close to being fairytale. We also know that not everything in a hard, cold world is hard and cold. The intense sensitivities of society have been running rampant for decades as well. It’s ironic, sure, when one says that a hard, cold unfeeling world is indeed a highly passionate and emotional world as well. But it’s true. Our world is a world of extremes that includes everything else imaginable in between. Maybe we are so much more in tune with our sensitivities since we are also so much more involved with the distant world we all share.

      The Miss Yous aspect of the collection is just simply the human condition when discussing loneliness. I believe we all need somebody to be with, to hold, to comfort, to talk…we all need someone to help disarm our stresses before we explode. We all deal with it differently, but somewhere somehow we all must deal with it. The Miss Yous are about just that, missing someone so desperately needed. It doesn’t matter in what capacity: friend, partner, spouse whatever. The feeling is always within us, whether worn on our sleeve or suppressed.

      All work and no play… certainly was/is a running theme in my life…until I became jobless. But following some time to get your mind, body, and spirit back to health, I also realized just how hard it truly is to find a job. Now those words are the same, but with an altered meaning…I may not have work per se, but it sure is ‘all work’ to even find a job now…one that is fulfilling!

      Enjoy the collection and all the best !

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      The Hurt

      arrival of a new day

      committed to a change

      open my eyes

      witnessed more pain

      whatever possesses you to do this

      grow those evil thoughts

      total disregard for my feelings

      confrontation and caught

      no penance strong enough

      for what you put my heart through

      I live to exact revenge

      my peace will be in torturing you

      how could you?

      speak to why…

      how would you?

      make me cry..

      after all the trust

      and faith I have cultivated

      suddenly taken away

      and made more complicated

      trust me when I say

      with this focused look on my face

      that you will feel infinitely worse

      than what you made me feel in this place…

      in this place called hell.

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      Nothing There

      the innocence arrived today

      no idea where it had originated

      but it came with fanfare upon arrival…

      didn’t fully understand

      the questions masked any possible answers

      about any future survivals…

      with all of the struggles

      that so dominated each night’s darkness

      it’s such a trail of fruitless

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